bada wrote:Nice sweep of the giants! That always feels good. Only gave up 1 run the whole series!

But we better start hitting soon or we are not going anywhere.

how'd the crowd support look at battle of bay. Last year when i went to A's there was about no more then 10000 people in the house.

I guess that's one of the reason they moving to San jose (attendance is hurting)

its complete crap. nobody goes to the games. this series was near capacity but mostly because of giants fans.

that's a shame. They're looking a lot better this season.

I've always thought of the Colliseum as the trifecta of poorly run professional sports teams (warriors, raiders & athletics) but out of all 3 athletics get a passmark in my eyes cause they can't really compete payroll wise with the heavyweights like redsox or yankees.

I was most astonished with the amount of scalpers selling tickets on the overpass from bart. You wonder how they make a profit (& the raiders) with the low attendance levels

bada wrote:Nice sweep of the giants! That always feels good. Only gave up 1 run the whole series!

But we better start hitting soon or we are not going anywhere.

how'd the crowd support look at battle of bay. Last year when i went to A's there was about no more then 10000 people in the house.

I guess that's one of the reason they moving to San jose (attendance is hurting)

its complete crap. nobody goes to the games. this series was near capacity but mostly because of giants fans.

that's a shame. They're looking a lot better this season.

I've always thought of the Colliseum as the trifecta of poorly run professional sports teams (warriors, raiders & athletics) but out of all 3 athletics get a passmark in my eyes cause they can't really compete payroll wise with the heavyweights like redsox or yankees.

I was most astonished with the amount of scalpers selling tickets on the overpass from bart. You wonder how they make a profit (& the raiders) with the low attendance levels

I think they could, but the damn Yankees and Red Sox are such "big names" in big markets. I mean, yeah, the bay area is a big market... but they avoid the A's because they never seem willing to spend money and they avoid the Giants because of our pitcher-friendly ball park.

Just been reading up on the Athletics plans to move to San Jose, there's a bit of a issue in regards to the Giants claiming that this is there area- Are they Serious?

Teams like the football Giants/Jets don't squabble over cross city rivalry. But if the baseball Giants really believe that this is there birthright. Didn't the Giants almost move to Florida a few years back.

I love the Giants logo(sf), but they get no love from me in everything else they do. A mediocre ballclub who think they're cream of the crop. (but they ain't ****)

PAWNO wrote:Just been reading up on the Athletics plans to move to San Jose, there's a bit of a issue in regards to the Giants claiming that this is there area- Are they Serious?

Teams like the football Giants/Jets don't squabble over cross city rivalry. But if the baseball Giants really believe that this is there birthright. Didn't the Giants almost move to Florida a few years back.

I love the Giants logo(sf), but they get no love from me in everything else they do. A mediocre ballclub who think they're cream of the crop. (but they ain't ****)

They have geographic / territorial rights in San Jose. Im really not sure how, but I think that actually may stem from when they were going to move to St. Petersburg.

PAWNO wrote:Just been reading up on the Athletics plans to move to San Jose, there's a bit of a issue in regards to the Giants claiming that this is there area- Are they Serious?

Teams like the football Giants/Jets don't squabble over cross city rivalry. But if the baseball Giants really believe that this is there birthright. Didn't the Giants almost move to Florida a few years back.

I love the Giants logo(sf), but they get no love from me in everything else they do. A mediocre ballclub who think they're cream of the crop. (but they ain't ****)

They have geographic / territorial rights in San Jose. Im really not sure how, but I think that actually may stem from when they were going to move to St. Petersburg.

The Giants have a minor league based team there. The San Jose Giants. Baseball works different than football, Pawndawg.

Pawno, I think your reaching a little bit with a few things here... Constant sellout's in the MLB are very rare and this isn't the NBA, markets don't influence FA decisions nearly as much. MLB is different from the other big sports.

JREED wrote:Pawno, I think your reaching a little bit with a few things here... Constant sellout's in the MLB are very rare and this isn't the NBA, markets don't influence FA decisions nearly as much. MLB is different from the other big sports.

i do know that FA hitters like to go to small ballparks so they can pad there HR stats.

& yeah over a 100 games a season... i doubt it would constantly sellout, but a San Jose ballclub would have more sellouts then a Oakland venue.

Doesn't look too good for the A's ATM... So much for the possibility of another Bay Bridge Series, but they still had a remarkable run. Happy to see the G-Men's lil bros from across the bay have a good season. Maybe in another 10 years after the Yankees, Red Socks, etc. raid all their talent and they are able to restock some more players that they'll have no chance of keeping.

JREED wrote:Doesn't look too good for the A's ATM... So much for the possibility of another Bay Bridge Series, but they still had a remarkable run. Happy to see the G-Men's lil bros from across the bay have a good season. Maybe in another 10 years after the Yankees, Red Socks, etc. raid all their talent and they are able to restock some more players that they'll have no chance of keeping.